I loved hearing the surnames of Jones, Knight, and Hicks as those are names from my mother’s side. When this happens all understanding and learning stops because we don’t listen to and respect, the now, other. My husband’s family is from New England MA, his ancestors home in West Falmouth. We saw in Charlottesville and see hatreds causing war deaths all around the world.We can’t solve the historical world conundrum of violence, we can only solve ourselves. My mother Ruth Trimble Balderston was descended from William Smith, a companion of George Fox, in and out of prison, but surely we would be careless to call “Smith” a uniquely Quaker name. Quaker Surnames. This one does little to express or show Quaker values.As part of the team that publishes QuakerSpeak, I want to thank all of you who have commented. Who do I come from?” I hear stories all the time of people that say that they started going to meeting because they heard that they had Quaker ancestry. I want to acknowledge your critiques.The reason our team chose to do two videos on this topic (this is the second) is that genealogy research actually draws a huge amount of curiosity about Quakers. Married into the familes are Farlows, Mendenhalls, Andrews, to name a few.I find genealogy and family history research to be fascinating! Her home (The Caleb Pusey House of Landingford Plantation) is now a museum.

I did have a cousin on the other side of the family who left the Catholic church when he married a Quaker during Vietnam. p. Yes, Quaker nuts exist, but not in the lineage of “most Americans” in 2018, and in the past many of those Friends with the classic Quaker names left meeting because the Society disowned them or made them feel unwelcome. This is a list of notable people associated with the Individuals whose parents were Quakers or who were Quakers themselves at one time in their lives but then converted to another religion, formally or informally distanced themselves from the Society of Friends, or were disowned by their Friends Meeting. Feel free to join and bring your ancestor profile along. Like Ray Regen, I was uncomfortable watching it. Forty years ago, when I was very new to Quaker meeting and attended worship while visiting my husband’s family in southeastern Pennsylvania, a well-intentioned member’s first question to me at the coffee hour was who was my family. Mary Bartram Trott, "Backhouse, James (1794–1869)", Petrulionis, Sandra Harbert (1998): "Bathsheba Bowers", Lois Frankel: "Anne Finch, Viscountess Conway". When it was clear to that person I had no Quaker ancestry, he had nothing more to say to me and walked away. But for whatever reason, I chose to speak out about ethnocentricity. In: Virginia Blain, Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy, eds: The Feminist Companion to Literature in English (London: Batsford, 1990), p. 302.Virginia Blain, Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy, eds, Citation needed. Some people just really like to know as part of their identity: “who am I made of? It naturally supports our ego or self-image. So for example, if you’re thinking of New England Friends, unfortunately one of the most common and prominent families was named Jones, which can be a challenge under any circumstances, but you would also look for names like Green, like Hoxie, like Arnold, like Meader, like Wilbur.Max Carter: If you’re up in Philadelphia for example, Biddles, Cadwalladers, Banks, Bailey, those sorts of names. But, I am sad that Mendenhall was not included… This is the Quaker family that I am descended from.And what about Brinton, Darlington, Glass and the Irish Quakers, Morris AND Boyd, These are all names my husband is descended from.. This was about 73% of all the recorded Quaker's in Scotland. Let me put it very clearly from my perspective (and in answer to Ray Regan’s questions): being a white skinned Quaker, a “birthright” Friend, or someone from a generations-Quaker family does not give you any more measure of God than anyone else. This database contains a list of surnames listed in alphabetical order; each name is followed by a list of states and monthly meetings in which that surname appears. You might find a John Evans, and then you might find a John Evans that was born 15 years later. I thought these were prominent names but maybe only to me. But the values carried down the generations, and it was good to go back and pick up that dropped stitch and connect with Quakers myself. So it wasn’t just the last names that they used over and over but the first names as well.Thomas Hamm: When you’re thinking of common Quaker names, you have to think in terms of geography. William Penn and others as owners of enslaved persons.When I began searching for my ancestors on Ancestry.com I discovered Quaker records go way back and provide family information from US Quaker Monthly Meeting records.

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